Humanities

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The non-scientific writings of Newton were sold in 1936 at auction house Sotheby's in London. Many of these pieces eventually were purchased by two scholars: the British economist John Maynard Keynes bequeathed his collection to King's College, Cambridge University, and the Orientalist Abraham Shalom Ezekiel Judah (1877-1951). The collection came to the National Library in 1969. Newton's manuscripts in this collection, deal with the interpretation of the Bible, the Tabernacle and Temple, calculations of the end of time, alchemy and ancient history displayed in a site set up following the Exibit "Newton's Secrets", held at the National Library in 2007.